baboon

IPA: bʌbˈun

An Old World monkey of the genus Papio, having dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
(colloquial, derogatory) A foolish or boorish person.

Examples of "baboon" in Sentences

"Where is Mappo now?" asked a small baboon, which is another kind of monkey.
The ape and the baboon are the most skilled of all animals in making their flight.
The baboon is a vegetarian but no bigot, and will eat mutton chops without protest.
"Take a letter to Kublai Khan, " I said to Mon Cul, pretending that the baboon was my secretary.
Is it racist if Rafiki the baboon is played by Patrick Ewing without any make-up in The Lion King?
He claims that he was called a "baboon" and a "criminal" in a unit where racist language was allegedly commonplace.
In his defence, Herselman argued that the word baboon was common in conversational Afrikaans and had no malicious or bad intentions.
There were dahlia and rhododendron plants, avocado trees and fuchsias, even a fascinating hairy-leaved thing called a baboon flower.
They found that drill-mangabeys and drills and mandrills shared numerous features that aren’t present in baboon-mangabeys and baboons.
One day, while we were eating a red monkey erroneously called the baboon, in Demerara, an Arowack Indian told an affecting story of what happened to